Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - tomorrow is the last day to bring in Non-Perishable food for the Mayor's Food Drive

Highlights:

The students whose Library Day was today got to share their 3 sentence clues for Letter B during Tell and Show. We did a morning math word problem.  We did a Grapheme Review of the double graphemes (graphemes 27- 54).  We made various snowflake art.  We went to Gym this afternoon.  Students had a choice to pick any gym equipment to play with today, as a reward for keeping the Gym storage room clean and tidy the last time. 

Ms. Mui’s class: We practiced printing numbers 0 to 19 neatly today.  We went to Music class this afternoon.

Mrs. Daniel’s class: We worked on teen numbers in math. 

Important information:

Mayor’s Food Drive

-Thursday, December 17 – Last day to bring in Non-perishable food items (e.g. canned food, soup, uncooked pasta, etc.) for the Mayor’s Food Drive that CBE and the Food Bank have partnered together, to provide food for families who do not have enough to eat during this Christmas holiday/winter season.

Homework:

-Tell and Show – Letter B written and oral sharings this week (on your Library day).

-Tell and Show sharings for Letter C will resume the first week of January, when students return back to school on Monday, January 4

- No Spelling homework until the new year.  Temporarily we will be reviewing graphemes until Christmas break.  Before the end of Christmas Break, we will have a final quiz of all the 54 graphemes learned this year.  If your child needs more practice catching up on the grapheme sounds, review the single and double grapheme sounds over Christmas break, to prepare them for more challenging grapheme sounds (3-letter graphemes) and Spelling words in the new year. 

Below are the links to the review videos for all of the graphemes and spelling words learned this year.  Continue to review them, printing them and orally saying the grapheme sounds/ spelling words every day:

·      Graphemes 1-26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1K1joMTWs

·      Graphemes 27-54: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POhlJUlNmJg

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVL838yYsQG7yNcrlj2Rd2wO

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVIUBDYviWa4-FZRwV506PzH

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVI_SA7_gcuUzUtjXLuEVqQD

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 4: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVI0h8Rc2AtL_2Fz2H95HlP6

·      Word Study (Spelling) List 5: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuEPTDQFayVKbiF6yg8-cUZKzi4myoPVI

(To view the grapheme/spelling videos, please copy and paste the links into the url bar.)

-Home-Reading – Please have your child read around 20 minutes every night.


-Kidsa-z.com Reading – Besides reading the at-home white readers that are going home every day, you may also log on to “Raz-Kids”, using the kidsa-z.com website.  The login information is taped on your child’s purple folder.  The password is the picture cue.

Ask me about:

-Which snowflake art did you make in class today?  What materials did you use and how did you make it?

-Which Gym equipment did you get to pick to play with today in Gym class?

Important Dates:

-Thursday, December 17 – Christmas Carols: 12:55 pm-1:25 pm

– Last day to bring in Non-Perishable food items for the Mayor’s Food Drive

– Healthy Hunger Lunch (Quiznos)

-Friday, December 18 – Pajama & Stuffy Day! (last day of school before winter break)

-Monday, December 21 to Friday, January 2 – Winter Break. Students return to school on Monday, January 4, 2016.

-Monday, January 4, 2016 – Students resume back to school

-Thursday, January 14 – School Spirit Day (Blue and Gold Day): Wear your PHS t-shirts or hoodies you purchased from the School Council or wear blue or gold.  We are encouraging students to purchase a PHS shirt to support School Council.    

– Movie Night for families, in the School Gym

Reminders: 

-PHS School monthly Calendar and newsletters are available on the school website to view and print out

-Milk Cards can be purchased at the office, for students staying at school for lunch

-2016 Panorama Hills School Yearbook:

Inside your child’s individual photo package is a white sheet about the 2016 PHS Yearbook.  With the purchase of a portrait package, yearbooks are available for the SPECIAL price of $20 each.  This price expires on December 31, 2015.  Yearbooks purchased after December 31, 2015 will be priced at $30 each.  Yearbooks will be printed and delivered to the school in June.